Re: Best Practice to upgrade 8.7i to 8.8

Mcafee truly needs to make a batch file or a executable to remove 8.7i if the files have been corrupt in some fashion form or another.

So far its been hit or miss uninstalling and the entire process takes over 2 hours to remove every single hidden bit from the registry. The instructions to do a manual remove is for those who have time and love to TINKER with their system but when you have over 200 computers then trying to do manual uninstall or the addremove keep complaining that another uninstall is in process.

If this is the modus operandi of Mcafee enterprise version 9i in the future then I'll reccomend we switch to a diffferent antivirus soultion. At this point and time it is a real time killer.

Please Mcafee. Create a Mcafee stripper as you have done to the retail consumer class product line of software.

Re: Best Practice to upgrade 8.7i to 8.8

On original topic, it is best to deploy through ePO. You would of course check in the extension for 8.8 into ePO to be able to set up policies (which if you've got it deployed already, then you probably have)....then check in the VSE 8.8 product into the master respository....then create a deployment task to push out the product. If a client already has 8.8 and runs the deployment task, it will skip the install.

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